Game apparatus



(No Model.)

H. DECKER.

A GAME APPARATUS. No. 463,271. Patented Nov. 17, 189.1.-

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- UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

IIARISON DECKER, OF HORSEHEADS, NEIV YORK.

GAME APPARATUS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 463,271, dated November 17, 1891.

Application filed Apiil 27, 1891- Serial No. 390,626. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, HARISON DECKER, a citizen of the United States of America, residing at IIorseheads, in the county of Ohemung and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Games, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying draw- 1ngs.

My invention relates to a novel game or play, having for its object both to amuse and interest the player; and it consists of the combination and arrangementof parts, as hereinafter set forth and illustrated, and pointed out in the claim concluding the specification.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a plan view of my improved game or play, and Fig. 2 is a sectional view thereof.

In carrying out my invention I employ a base or board A, which, with a surrounding raised portion a, constitutes an inclosure, in which at the center is aclosure or house B, of circular form, for a ball or spherical body C.

At each corner within theinclosure is a pen I), containing a series of very small spherical The pens D, which are for corralling in groups the bodies orshot b,c0n1- prise pickets or rails,the spaces between which are of sufficient Width to permit the passage of the spherical bodies D out of said pens, while the house B has two openings 0, arranged in alignment with each other and of a size that will prevent the passage therethrough of the ball 0.

The operation is as follows: It being desired to get the bodies or shotb into the house, the board or base A is tilted, so as to cause the said shot or bodies to move toward the henhouse, the ball 0 being the heavier and moving away from the neareropening of the house toward and closing the distant or opposite opening thereof, preventing, as the shot or bodies enter the house through said nearer opening, said shot or bodies from passingout 0f the house through said distant ope-ning,-it-- being understood that the tilting or manipulation of the board is continued until all the shot or bodies from the several pens or compartments have entered the house.

Having thus fullydescribed my invention,I

IIARISON DECKER.

Witnesses:

C. E. CARPENTER, E. K. VAN GORDEN. 

